How much are these worth in 2018? I know they were going for hundreds of dollars in the early 2000s. I just bought a sealed copy on eBay for $25 and was curious if that was a good deal or if they're fairly easy to get a hold of these days.

Mr. Slash wrote:What exactly are the differences between the Blue Collar and the "normal" version?

I think the Blue Collar version was the album they recorded before they got signed to a major label.

Yea, and I listened to the blue collar version of My Own Prison and it sounded pretty much the same.

It's actually 45 seconds longer. Extended intro (which I like), some additional backing vocals, and a few other differences.

Sister is different, too. The chorus is "little girl, little girl" instead of "little sister, little girl." The Wind-Up version is definitely better in that respect.

Honestly as an audiophile it's a unique experience and hearing it in high quality has been very enjoyable. I always thought the sheen that Wind-Up put on it was weird. It's essentially a homemade rock record and the Blue Collar version is rawer, as it should be. Mark's guitars are definitely higher in the mix. Not as much low end.

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Yeah I mostly like the blue collar version more as well except for maybe sister for reasons already posted. I remember reading an interview about the people who worked on it, maybe it was Kurzweg, how he disliked the mixer or something that Wind-up used on the record because it sounded too overproduced. I think I read it on this but I don't recall where or when. Someone had posted a link to it I think.